INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

employer_total_cost

What a Canadian employee REALLY costs the employer for 2026: gross salary plus mandatory employer-side contributions (CPP + CPP2 + EI at 1.

canada-payroll.canone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://canada-payroll.ca/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for employer_total_cost and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.canada-payroll]
url = "https://canada-payroll.ca/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "canada-payroll": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://canada-payroll.ca/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: canada-payroll
Remote MCP URL: https://canada-payroll.ca/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "canada-payroll": {
      "url": "https://canada-payroll.ca/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "canada-payroll": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://canada-payroll.ca/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "canada-payroll",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://canada-payroll.ca/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

employee_take_home — 2026 take-home pay for a Canadian employee on regular salary: CPP/QPP (incl.
net_to_gross_salary — Invert payroll for 2026: start from the take-home pay you agreed with the employee ("$800/week in their pocket") and get the gross salary that delivers it, the employer's true total cost, and the per-period source-deduction remittances (CRA; split CRA vs Revenu Québec for Quebec).